Bug 285753

Summary:	[Dialogs] move simple org.eclipse.ui.dialogs classes to JFace
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Will Horn <will.horn>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	prakash, pwebster, remy.suen
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Will Horn

2009-08-05 14:36:38 EDT

Build ID: 3.5

org.eclipse.ui.dialogs contains a good number of useful classes that have no need for the workbench.

For example, ElementListSelectionDialog is a common and generic UI feature that shouldn't require a dependency on the workbench.  Looking through it's hierarchy, the only non JFace dependency is org.eclipse.ui.internal.MessageLine, which itself doesn't depend on the workbench either.

Comment 1 Susan McCourt

2009-08-06 11:10:29 EDT

This makes sense conceptually, but I think the chances of it happening are low.  To break so many clients, we'd have to have a pretty solid justification (many use cases of clients that need these dialogs and don't use the workbench, lots of votes, etc.).  I certainly don't see it happening in the 3.6 timeframe, but it might make sense in a major release stream if there was other major/breaking refactoring occurring.

For that reason, I'll leave this open but I think the workaround of copying the dialogs when you don't need the workbench is sufficient for most cases.

Comment 2 Remy Suen

2009-11-06 11:15:14 EST

I wanted to use ListSelectionDialog in e4 but I realized I can't. Should we consider this for 4.0? We don't even have to literally remove them, just @deprecate them and point to the copy/pasted version in JFace?

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:12:06 EDT

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